Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe (Holt McDougal)

A launch party for the debut novel by Los Angeles author Jenny Hollowell!

"Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe tells us in quick witty scenes and sharp psychological details what it's like to be a needy spirit in a beautiful body, yearning for success. This novel is smart, spare, comic and sad. It rings beautifully true." --John Casey, National Book Award-winning author of Spartina

Jenny Hollowell's short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Scheherezade, and the anthology New Sudden Fiction, and was named a distinguished story by Best American Short Stories. She received an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction and recipient of the Balch Short Story Award. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.

Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe (Paperback)

By Jenny Hollowell

$14.00

ISBN-13: 9780805091199
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 6/2010

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A young woman caught at the turning point between success and failure hopes fame and fortune will finally let her leave her old life--and her old self--behind.

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